Gö Lotsāwa Zhönu Pal

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon	Gö Lotsāwa Zhönu Pal
MainNameTib	འགོས་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་གཞོན་ནུ་དཔལ་
MainNameWylie	'gos lo tsA ba gzhon nu dpal
SortName	Gö Lotsāwa
AltNamesTib	ཡིད་བཟང་རྩེ་བ་  ·  མགོས་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་གཞོན་ནུ་དཔལ་
AltNamesWylie	yid bzang rtse ba  ·  mgos lo tsA ba gzhon nu dpal  ·  'gos lo tsā ba gzhon nu dpal
YearBirth	1392
YearDeath	1481
BornIn	grong nag me dgu ('phyongs rgyas)
TibDateGender	Male
TibDateElement	Water
TibDateAnimal	Monkey
TibDateRabjung	7
ReligiousAffiliation	Karma Kagyu
StudentOf	Third Shamarpa Chopel Yeshe  ·  Fifth Karmapa Deshin Shekpa  ·  Tsongkhapa  ·  Rongtön Sheja Kunrik
TeacherOf	Fourth Shamarpa Chodrak Yeshe  ·  Seventh Karmapa Chödrak Gyatso
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P318
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Go-Lotsawa-Zhonnu-Pel/5500
Himalayan Art Resources	https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=976
IsInGyatsa	No
PosBuNayDefProv	Definitive
PosBuNayDefProvNotes	"Thus the last two dharmacakras are not different in terms of ontology. Still, the third dharmacakra differs in the fine distinctions it offers, and for this reason alone it has—contrary to the first two—definitive meaning (nītārtha), and so outshines the second dharmacakra by an uncountable factor." Klaus-Dieter Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 369. "There is not the slightest attempt to elevate the second dharmacakra to the same level as the third; Zhönu Pal goes so far as to quote in full length the Samdhinirmocanasūtras description of how the third dharmacakra is superior, and concludes that, since the benefit derived from merely hearing its definitive meaning is that great, the profound and vast meaning of the last dharmacakra stands out accordingly." Klaus-Dieter Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 371.
PosWheelTurn	Third Turning
PosYogaMadhya	Yogācāra
PosYogaMadhyaNotes	Though his own view is based on Mahāmudrā, for which he asserts RGV is an important basis.
PosAnalyticMedit	Meditative Tradition
PosAnalyticMeditNotes	"That Zhönu Pal comments on the Ratnagotravibhāga from within the tradition of meditation is also clear from his colophon: The Dharma master Drigungpa [Jigten Sumgön] rejoiced in Jé Gampopas statement that the basic text of these mahāmudrā instructions of ours is the [Ratnagotravibhāga] Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra composed by the illustrious Maitreya; and since it is evident that the notes to [his] Uttaratantra explanations, the points he makes when presenting the three dharmacakras, and also the explanations deriving from Sajjana’s heart disciple Tsen Kawoché, are [all] in accordance with mahāmudrā proper, I have relied on them and have made [this] clear to others as best as I could. (DRSM, 574.9-12)" Klaus-Dieter Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 368.
PosEmptyLumin	Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature
PosEmptyLuminNotes	"The tathāgata heart’s own essence is not a nonimplicative negation but is the element of basic awareness." Karl Brunnhölzl, When the Clouds Part, p. 69. "The determination of the ultimate as buddha nature or natural luminosity in the third dharmacakra is taken to be the direct mahāmudrā approach to the nature of mind. This approach is not really different from the emptiness of the second dharmacakra. While the analytical methods of the second dharmacakra deflate all concepts, coarse and subtle, about things, the third one purifies phenomenal appearances that hinder the proper perception of buddha nature." Klaus-Dieter Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 373. "In the third dharmacakra, the scope of such a nonaffirming negation is restricted to the adventitious stains, whose lack of an own-being has been established by inferential valid cognitions. The ultimate that is beyond the intellect is taken to be the emptiness that is buddha nature, or the element of awareness." Klaus-Dieter Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 374.
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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

Three successive stages of the Buddhist teachings. Though they are traditionally attributed to the historical Buddha, modern scholarship tends to view them as developmental stages that occurred over the course of an extended period of time, with interludes of several centuries, in which we see major doctrinal shifts often based on seemingly newly emergent scriptural sources.

Refers to a teaching that is literally true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā.

Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.

Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā.

The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.

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The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

A negation that merely denies the existence of something without implicitly suggesting an alternative.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

Commonly found in Dzogchen and Mahāmudrā literature, this term denotes the true, natural state of mind as it is. Often used in these traditions as a synonym for buddha-nature.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.

A negation that merely denies the existence of something without implicitly suggesting an alternative.

Mental stains that are not inherent to the nature of the mind but are temporarily present as the residue of past actions or habitual tendencies. It is sometimes iterated as adventitious defilements (Skt. āgantukakleśa, Tib. glo bur gyi nyon mongs), which references the fickle and temporary nature of disturbing emotions that lack an ultimately established basis for existence.